When We look to societies, like Tahiti before the "western world" came in and messed it up, …
Tahiti is a small community and its example cannot be used as a template for a global community. You will need a value measure for trade. And besides, you can’t uninvent things, @amaterasusolar.
No. Tahiti had a big enough population where One did not know all the Others. The key was in the abundance. In small communities in scarcity environments They expected proof of energy input. In large communities in scarcity They expected proof of energy input. In the few societies that developed in abundance, irrespective of size, no energy accounting arose.
And if We retain that archaic and very dangerous tool, We will see poverty and privilege, psychopaths promoted to the top, People having to find ways to plug Their energy in some way and seldom fulfilling Their potential, and most dying unfulfilled.